Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”), major disparities existed between communities of color and White populations in access to coverage for healthcare. While equity in health insurance coverage still hasn’t been achieved, since the passage of the ACA all racial groups have seen lower uninsured rates and some progress towards lowering the gap. … [Read more...] about PRESS RELEASE: Civil Rights and Racial Justice Organizations Issue Joint Statement on House Vote to Repeal ACA
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“The Error of the Third Type” Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (January-February 1995 P&R Issue)
By Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Policy analysts talk of what William Dunn calls "The Error of the Third Type." Unlike Type I and Type II errors, well known to students of statistics, errors of the third type refer not to rejecting or accepting null hypotheses when they are true or false. These errors refer to finding the right … [Read more...] about “The Error of the Third Type” Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (January-February 1995 P&R Issue)
